The Lost Playground In The Woods

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The Lost Playground In The Woods - (Unedited)

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

“A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them “containerized kids”–they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they’re often placed in containers–strollers–and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term healt…

Nature Play

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” ~ Luther Burbank “Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddl…

Nature

When we divert & divest from nature, we suffer the consequences, and it’s making our society sicker than ever before. When you choose SMART anything, such as a Smart Phone, it’s actually the opposite of smart because it’s a diversion from natural. The Natural way is the only smart way. Nature is the answer to all of our problems! We need to experience a paradigm shift in how we live in the world because we currently live in ways that our toxic to ourselves, our environments, and all the species …

Adventure Playgrounds

Adventure Playgrounds are also often called Natural Playgrounds or Junk Playgrounds. According to Wikipedia, Adventure Playgrounds are typically defined by an ethos of unrestricted play, the presence of playworkers, and the absence of adult-manufactured or rigid play-structures. This is what inspired me to build Playworkers.com "It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents…